A group of users on Twitter are claiming that all women have a freckle located in the middle of their wrists.
The tweet, posted on May 22, went viral, garnering tens of thousands of reactions.
On Twitter, women began sharing photos of seemingly identical freckles on their respective wrists.
The response harks back to when people claimed to see a two different-colored dresses or hear “Yanny” or “Laurel” in other viral social media posts.
A freckle is a concentrated deposit of melanin on one spot of skin, and they often become darker when the skin is exposed to the sun.
The freckle sightings could merely be evidence that the back of the wrist is often exposed to sunlight.
“Low key freaking out,” one user responded.
However, some posted photos of their sans-a-freckle wrist, disproving the allegation that “all women” have it.
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The website says that the “credit for freckles goes to both the natural environment and genetics. Your risk for burning can increase the incidence of freckles.